Chandragupta Maurya and His Times c19.6

c19.6

| *Asoka's Edicts.* | *Kauṭilya's Arthaśāstra* |
| and fruits in RE. II. | seeds of useful and medicinal plants by exempting such import from tolls. |
| 9. *Dbādasa--vasābhisitena* [RE. III]: the dates given in the Edicts are all counted from Asoka's coronation. | 9. Kauṭilya [II. 6] also applies the term *rājavarsha* to the year counted from the king's coronation. |
| 10. *Yuktas* [RE. III and elsewhere] and *Purushas* [PE. I, IV and VII] indicative of Government servants. | 10. Kauṭilya also uses the terms *yukta*, *upayukta* and *purusha* for Government servants [II. 5] and also the terms *yogapurusha* [I. 21; V. 2] or *yugyapurusha* [VII. 4] in the sense of employees. [A commentator explains the term *upayukta* as an officer placed above the *yuktas* (*yuktānām upari niyuktah*)]. |
| 11. *Rājūke* [Girnar RE. III] or *Rajuke* (Mansehra). | 11. Kauṭilya [II. 6] uses the expression *rajjū chora-rajjūścha*. He also mentions [IV. 13] an officer called *chora-rajjuka=chora-grahana-niyukta*, *i.e.*, one whose duty was to apprehend thieves. |
| 12. *Aparānta* [RE. V]. | 12. Kauṭilya also mentions Aparānta as the region known for its elephants [II. 2] and rainfall [II. 24]. |
| 13. Reference to the *Dharma-Mahāmātras* giving | 13. Kauṭilya also recognises the duty of the State |